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And this is what we voted for, somehow. Make America Crash Again!

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[–] ExtremeDullard@lemmy.sdf.org 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You have to admire the stupendous recklessness of applying Silicon Valley's idiotic "move fast and break things* motto to things that must never break...

[–] Powderhorn@beehaw.org 9 points 1 year ago

I stand in awe of the stupidity. Like, what the fuck did you think the net result of this would be?

[–] Rhaedas@fedia.io 6 points 1 year ago

"Well, it's not rocket science."

"NO, Elon, it's not rocket science! Stop making things that were working blow up!"

[–] Rentlar@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago

In a few days, cue another memo from the US admin trying to find the people they just fired again...

[–] N0body@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 1 year ago

Aviation safety is the canary in the coal mine. They actively deal with a massive amount of traffic with a virtually zero error rate. That rate moved up a notch. As cuts continue, it will move up more notches.

Everything’s else we’ve considered safe for decades because it’s being protected by diligent, but thankless, federal workers is going to follow suit.

[–] redfox 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Maybe the reason we've had a bunch of crashes all the sudden is that we SHOULD have fired all them before now? Maybe they are INDEED the geniuses, and WE are the stupid ones...